Luis Romero, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies

Program Affiliations

AddRan College of Liberal Arts Comparative Race & Ethnic Studies

Education

Ph.D., Sociology, University of Texas at Austin
M.A., Sociology, University of Texas at Austin
B.A., Sociology, Certificate in Race and Ethnicity, Texas A&M University

Areas of Focus

Immigration enforcement and detention; Racial inequality; Crimmigration; Immigration policy; Latina/o/x studies.

American Sociological Association (ASA)
Sections: Comparative and Historical Sociology, International Migration, Latina/o Sociology, Racial and Ethnic Minorities, and Sociology of Law
Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher Education (TACHE)
Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP)
Southern Sociological Association (SSS)

Romero, Luis A. 2022. “Malleable Detention: The Restructuring of Carceral Space within U.S. Immigration Detention.” Punishment & Society. DOI: 10.1177/14624745221109539.
Romero, Luis A. 2022. “Unsacred Children: The Portrayal of Unaccompanied Immigrant Minors as Racialized Threats.” American Behavioral Scientist 66(12) 1669 –1687.
Romero, Luis A. 2021. “Visiting Migrants, Contesting Detention: An Overview of Community Visitation Programs and Advocacy for Immigrants inside U.S. Immigration Detention” Humanity & Society 45(2): 182-201.
Zarrugh, Amina and Luis A. Romero. 2019. “Detention, Disappearance, and the Politics of Family.” Contexts 18(3): 32-35.
Gilman, Denise L. and Luis A. Romero. 2018. “Immigration Detention, Inc.” Journal on Migration and Human Security 6(2): 145-160.
Romero, Luis A. and Amina Zarrugh. 2018. “Islamophobia and the Making of Latinos/as into Terrorist Threats.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 41(12): 2235-2254.
- Reprinted in Renton, James (ed). 2019. Islamophobia and Surveillance: Genealogies of a Global Order (pp. 111-130). New York: Routledge.
Romero, Luis A. and Néstor Rodriguez. 2016. “Inmigración de menores centroamericanos y reacciones en Estados Unidos.” (The Immigration of Central American Minors and Reactions in the United States). Ecuador Debate 97:123-141.

Last Updated: November 19, 2024

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